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Late one night when the wind was stillDaddy brought the baby to the window sillTo see a bit of heaven shoot across the skyThe one and only time Daddy saw it flyIt came from the east just as bright as a torchThe neighbors had a party on their porchDaddy rocked the baby, Mother said "amen"When Halley came to visit in nineteen tenNow back then Jackson was a real small townAnd it's not every night a comet comes aroundIt was almost eighty years since its last time throughSo I bet your mother would've said "amen" tooAs its tail stretched out like a stardust streakThe papers wrote about it every day for a weekThey wondered where it's going and where it's beenWhen Halley came to Jackson in 1910Now Daddy told the baby sleeping in his armsTo dream a little dream of a comet's charmsAnd he made a little wish as she slept so soundIn nineteen eighty-six that wish came 'round It came from the east, just as bright as a torchShe saw it in the sky from her daddy's porchAs heavenly sent as it was back thenWhen Halley came to Jackson in nineteen tenLate one night when the wind was still Aus Songtexte Mania